Month: February 2010

Profit & Loss has launched a new series of annual conferences under the FX Growth Markets banner, and more than 300 delegates are already signed up for the first event, which takes place in Mexico City on February 25-26. This conference features a keynote address by Javier Duclaud, Banco de Mexico’s director of operations. The […]

Financial software firm First Derivatives has bought FX technology company Cognotec Holdings out of receivership for $4.7 million. The deal marks the final chapter in the 20-year history of Cognotec, which was set up by controversial businessman Brian Maccaba and hailed as one of the FX industry’s great technology hopes during the 1990s and turn […]

CLS Bank settled a new record volume of 1,733,262 sides on Tuesday 16 February – substantially above the previous record of 1,544,166 sides settled on the quarterly International Monetary Market date during the week of 14 September, 2008, or “Lehmans week”. Total value settled was $6,181 billion and total net funding was $44.8 billion. Settlement […]

Japanese financial information vendor, Quick Corp., has launched Quick FX, a new multi-bank FX trading platform supported by technology from FXall. Quick FX is now available to Quick clients using their existing Astra Manager or Quick ActiveManager services. This provides Quick users with electronic foreign exchange trading through a single user interface, leveraging FXall’s request […]

Socit Gnrale Corporate and Investment Banking has joined TradingScreen’s TradeFX platform, a broker neutral community of FX liquidity providers for the buy-side. The French banking group will offer the TradingScreen client base a foreign exchange execution suite covering spot, forward and swap deal types supported through request for quotes and request for stream trading. TradeFX […]

Gain Capital has revamped its flagship trading platform Forex.com, adding web and mobile trading capabilities and education resources for retail traders. New resources include a full library of video tutorials, training modules, articles and other content, as well as an expanded schedule of webinars and events. The new site provides streamlined trading, research and account […]

StreamBase Systems, a provider of complex event processing (CEP) technology, has launched StreamBase Component Exchange, a venue that developers can access to download and share reusable components within a global community. Developers can access the listing of components from the StreamBase Component Exchange website or within StreamBase Studio. Components are imported into the development environment […]

Letstalk.com Enlists White to Global FX Networking Venue LetstalkFX.com, a soon to launch FX networking venue, said today Roland White has agreed to support the initiative. Working towards its formal launch at the end of Q1 2010, Letstalk.com will utilise White’s experience in FX and e-commerce sales to help it develop commercial relationships with banks, […]